New issue of Addiction Biology is out with articles about two special populations: American Indians and Chinese women.
Cindy L. Ehlers, David A. Gilder, Ian R. Gizer, Kirk C. Wilhelmsen
Addiction Biology, 2009:14(3), pp 338-348
Toni-Kim Clarke, Kristina Krause, Tao Li, Gunter Schumann
Addiction Biology, 2009:14(3), pp 366-370
Interpreting is supposed to be about a transfer of meaning across language and culture. It is a lot easier to do when you know what the meaning is.
Here’s a little something from Journal of Attention Disorders that may help you understand how it’s done in a monolingual setting.
A Linguistic Analysis of In-Office Dialogue Among Psychiatrists, Parents, and Child and Adolescent Patients With ADHD
Robert L. Findling, Daniel F. Connor, Timothy Wigal, Corey Eagan, and Meaghan Nelson Onofrey
J Atten Disord 2009;13 78-86
Commentary: State Snapshots—A Picture of Unacceptable Variation: Are We Destined to Live With “Geography Is Destiny”?
Jeffrey Brady, Karen Ho, and Carolyn M. Clancy
American Journal of Medical Quality 2008;23 492-495
End-of-Life Decision Making in the Intensive Care Unit: Physician and Nurse Perspectives
Dan M. Westphal and Stefanie Andrea McKee
American Journal of Medical Quality 2009;24 222-228
The Inequality in Health Care Quality
Safiya Abouzaid and Vittorio Maio
American Journal of Medical Quality 2009;24 182-184
Creole in Cape Verde: Language, identity and power
Katherine Carter and Judy Aulette
Ethnography 2009;10 213-236
Title tells it all. Not an easy thing to translate a test and still have it be valid. Haven’t read the article to see if it is checked crossculturally, that is, do the items have the same signigicance in a variety of cultures that Arabic-literate patients are in. Same question comes up across class; sometimes people with similar socioeconomic backgrounds have more in common with others from their same class although of difference nationalities than than with others sharing nationality but not class. The poor around the world may have more in common than the very rich of their own country.
The Arabic version of Diabetes-39: psychometric properties and validation
Yousef S. Khader, Safaa Bataineh, and Waleed Batayha
Chronic Illness 2008;4 257-263
Good to know this isn’t the only place for racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.
Racial disparity in stroke risk factors: the Berlin&2013;Ibadan experience; a retrospective study
M. O. Owolabi, S. Ugoya, T. Platz
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 2009:119(2), 81-87
In case someone hasn’t caught on yet, health literacy is impossible without language accessibility. How important is health literacy? Lives depend on it.
These are from the Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care.
Association Between Health Literacy and HIV Treatment Adherence: Further Evidence from Objectively Measured Medication Adherence
Seth C. Kalichman, Howard Pope, Denise White, Chauncey Cherry, Christina M. Amaral, Connie Swetzes, Jody Flanagan, and Moira O. Kalichman
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 317-323
Nonadherence Increases the Risk of Hospitalization Among HIV-Infected Antiretroviral Naïve Patients Started on HAART
Sarah J. Fielden, Melanie L. A. Rusch, Benita Yip, Evan Wood, Kate Shannon, Adrian R. Levy, Julio S. G. Montaner, and Robert S. Hogg
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 238-244
and this:
Promoting HIV Literacy
José M. Zuniga
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 215-216
and finally this:
Profile of Communication Disorders in HIV-Infected Individuals: A Preliminary Study
Mili Mary Mathew and Jayashree S. Bhat
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 223-227
Not a beautiful presentation but this may solve my problem of getting things posted.
Qualitative Analysis of the Role of Culture in Coping Themes of Latina and European American Mothers of Children With Cancer
Alexis L. Johns, Alyssa A. Oland, Ernest R. Katz, Olle Jane Z. Sahler, Martha A. Askins, Robert W. Butler, and Michael J. Dolgin
Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing 2009;26 167-175
and two articles on Nurses’ interests in managing symptoms in their patients; these should help you know what their aims are in interventions, interactions, and interviews:
Pediatric Oncology Nurses’ Management of Patients’ Symptoms
Jennifer I. Rheingans
Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing 2008;25 303-311
Relationship Between Pediatric Oncology Nurses’ Management of Patients’ Symptoms and Job Satisfaction
Jennifer I. Rheingans
Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing 2008;25 312-322
Translation & Interpreting looks like a very promising journal for a host of reasons. First, it’s got a dynamite board of editors and reviewers. Even if I don’t always agree with Sandra Hale she’s got quite a reputation. Second, it wants to link research, training and practice. So far in interpreting they’ve been three completely distinct arenas.
I don’t understand the italics in the title. Is it Trans-Int, or Translation & Interpreting, or just Translation & Interpreting? I don’t know.
Anyway, the first issue is pending. There’s already a conference announcement on the site.
Mutatis Mutandis is a brilliant name for a translation journal. It’s a multi-lingual translation journal from el Grupo de investigación en Traductología at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia.
It is billed as “Latin American Translation Journal” in English but bears similar headings in Spanish, Portuguese, French and German. The homepage also gives a choice of languages available: German, English, Canadian French, Croatian, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese and Turkish. Read the rest of this entry »
